EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision.
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision.
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision.
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision.
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner of best Mexican short documentary film)
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2024
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2024
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2024
- Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival CDMX, 2024
- Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival CDMX, 2024
- Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival CDMX, 2024
